Medical compound



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

JOHN MIOHELLS,OF DENVER, COLORADO.

MEDICAL coMPouNp.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 274,014, dated March. 13, 1883.

' Application filed October 25, 1882. (N o specimens.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN MIGHELLS, of Denver, Arapahoe county, Colorado, have invented a certain new and useful Medical (J0mpound for the Treatment and Cure of Rheumatism, of which the-following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This compound is intended for internal and external use. Itcousists of the following-hi gredientsin the proportions substantially as named: alcoh o l, two quarts; saltpeter, four ounces; garlic, one ounce; fir-balsam, two

ounces; -camphor, tWO OLUIGBS; gumguaiacurn, two ounces; oil of cedar, one ounce;

oil of hemlock, one ounce; oil of Wormwood,

of twenty-four hours'the liquid part is carefully drained'oif and is ready for use.

In the treatment of rheumatism oneor two tea-spoonfuls are taken internally by an adult before breakfast each morning. l" At the coinmencement of the treatment the whole body is rubbed with about two table-spoonfuls of the compound, and after this the affected part alone is well rubbed with the compound daily. (The rubbing should be continued until the hand becomes hot by friction.) When taken internally the compound may be mixed with halt a tea-cupful of hot water sweetened to taste.

I claimi The medical compound herein described, which consists oi alcohol. saltpeter, garlic, tirhalsam, gum-camphor, guin-guaiacuin, oil of cedar, oil of hemlock, oil of Wormwood, oil of sassat'ras, chloroform, tincture of capsicum, fluid extract of sarsaparilla, spirits of turpentine, sweetspirits of niler. and sulphuric ether, in about the proportions named,

JOHN MIGHELLS.

Witnesses:

H. B. JEFFRIES, M. HILGER. 

